In Pick It Out Of Your Teeth Afterwards, London-based artist Izzie Beirne returns with a visceral new body of paintings and sculptural interventions that mine the horror and glamour of Peter Greenaway’s cult 1989 film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

Painted from screen-grabs and infused with cinematic tension, Beirne’s works blur the line between violence and sensuality. Disembodied limbs, ghostlike sentinels, and blurred gestures haunt canvases that suggest trauma, control, and unspoken aftermaths. Her distorted figures and soft-focus scenes draw the viewer into a world of decadence and desire—one where safety is as unstable as the narrative. A metaphor for the moment passion tips into force, the work expresses a tenderness with teeth.